Levi's Titan (Attack On Titan Fanfic)

Chapter 37

"Never ever, ever let Mikasa walk away alone with me ever again," Gaia groaned as she fell face-first onto Eren's bed. Eren chuckled and Armin smiled shaking head at their antics. They had been enjoying a fairly quiet evening until the unlikely duo burst through the door. 

"What have the two of you been up to for the past 3 hours?" Eren asked Mikasa, as he petted Gaia's head next to his hip. Gaia looked up Eren pouting, 

"Oh we were just having some fun, she is being dramatic," Mikasa said leaning against the door frame, 

"Sure sure, because torture is fun to all of you, Ackermans." Gaia said, rolling her eyes once she propped up her head on her up-turned palm, Mikasa smirked at her comment, the girl was clearly still upset with their captain, she had sulked about it most of their evening despite Mikasa's efforts to distract her.

Eren's face darkened at Gaia's words, very familiar with his captain's methods of torture.  

"You tortured her?" he asked, as he slowly moved forward to protect Gaia,  

"I am sure Gaia is just exaggerating, you know that she tends to do that, " Armin said in defense, quickly finding his way between his two childhood friends, 

"How do you know? This could be Gaia's desperate cry for help. We should protect her," Eren said, still on the edge of the bed, almost hiding Gaia from their sight, 

" I should know, because I taught her how to speak," Armin deadpanned, sweat-dropping as  her recalled her odd habit of over exaggerating as soon as she was able to speak conversationally - it had been a key indicator for them that she may have had a personality before joining them. He shook his and before Eren could respond, he felt Gaia, placed her hand on his back, effectively calming him down. His frown fell and his shoulder's noticeably slumped, 

Mikasa's eyes trained on Gaia's hand, hope that somehow it would set a light if she stared hard enough, Gaia saw the young girl's reaction to her calming gesture to Eren in amusement. I wonder when this boy will realize how much he means to her. 

 Although Gaia wanted him to relax he was not able to ignore the fact that Gaia's legs were shaking from behind him. She probably hoped that the angle that she laid on his bed and the fact that she was now behind his back, that he could not tell that her body was shaking from overexertion. 

He looked over at Armin, who could see behind him. He noticed that Armin noticed it as well, that's all confirmation that he needed,   

"If you did not torture her, then what exactly were you doing?" Eren asked, a clear threat in his tone made Gaia frown, 

"We just had a little fun," Mikasa replied crossing her arms, as Armin's eyebrows raised. He could not think of what Mikasa could think fun was, every game that they ever played together involved Eren and himself. What could she and Gaia possibly view as fun together? Especially now that they were grown women, he doubted that they were playing tag or hide and seek... Mikasa hated board games and card games... Mikasa... He looked over to his friend who at this point was feverishly arguing with a screaming Eren. There was something odd about her. Mikasa's hair was disheveled and her skin was almost shinning.., or  perhaps glowing? His eyes trailed down her form, her white shirt that was clinging to her form more than usual. Why was Mikasa in such a state and Gaia's legs shaking...? Armin paused as an unsavoury picture made its way into his teenage mind. Mikasa being so cryptic about what they were doing did not help his mental image of what they defined as "fun" either...He blushed. 

"You know, Levi has a point in being suspicious of you two," Mikasa said, bringing Armin out of his thoughts,

"Oh please, not you too," Eren said, bringing his hand to his face in frustration,